Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2004, 1:56 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2004, 1:56 PM MDT (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2004, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County El Paso County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 1:35 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 149 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -330 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2129 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KPUB 221956 SVRPUB COC041-222100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 155 PM MDT THU JUL 22 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EL PASO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF EAST CENTRAL COLORADO SPRINGS * UNTIL 300 PM MDT. * AT 152 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED AND WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO HALF DOLLAR SIZE. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PEYTON...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 5 MILES EAST OF FALCON BY 220 PM MDT. 6 MILES NORTH OF SCHRIEVER AFB BY 300 PM MDT. IF POSSIBLE...WITHOUT RISKING YOUR SAFETY...PROTECT PROPERTY BEFORE THE WEATHER HITS. GET IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR...OR A BASEMENT CAN OFFER THE BEST PROTECTION. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO. LAT...LON 3910 10446 3905 10468 3872 10462 3880 10429 $$ ETP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 2:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 61 min |
| Jul 22, 3:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 53 min |
| Jul 22, 5:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 53 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.